GPU-Z Disconnected my Graphics Card

[warriargh]

I tried to upload my BIOS to the database to try and help out and I knew it would disconnect my graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M) but I figured it would just immediately plug it back in. So why is that? And how can I get my graphics card to work again.

Right now I am running off a separate card, the not-so-great Intel HD Graphics 4600, and it just does not allow me to run the games that I want.

I also tried going into the BIOS to try and remedy the situation and was unable to find any option to be able to switch graphics cards.

 

[W1zzard]

GPU-Z should indeed reenable the card when the BIOS reading is done. Go into device manager, right click the graphics card and select enable

 

[StefanM]

This seems to happen with with mobile GPUs whose VBIOS is embedded in the main BIOS (and can't be dumped).

The goofballs at NVIDIA did it themselves and made a screenshot from a disabled GPU

Coincidentially i have the same GPU

However you can grab a copy of the VBIOS from the registry (and convert it to binary format).

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0001\Session]
"vbios"=...

 

[StefanM]

FYI: the disconnect issue has been fixed in NVFlash 5.319

Mobile GPU support is still limited to MXM versions, those with VBIOS embedded in main BIOS fail with:

Identifying EEPROM...
Command complete with error, Error code = 0x0003
Command id:0002 Command: NV_UCODE_CMD_COMMAND_EID failed
Command Status:NV_UCODE_CMD_STS_NONE
Error: NV_UCODE_ERR_CODE_CMD_EID_RD_ERROR
EEPROM ID process failed.

NB:
NVFlash 5.319 adds support for:

GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Quadro P5000
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce GTX 1080
Quadro P6000
TITAN X (Pascal)
Tesla P100-SXM2-16GB
Tesla P100-PCIE-16GB

Build Information
- Build Date: Aug 15 2016
- Build Time: 14:07:24
- Build CL: 21051284